BRITISH POLITICS.
ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE. UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM LABOR’S CLEAR DEFEAT, By Telegraph.—Press Aaen.—Copyright, Received Dec. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 1. The Address-in-Reply debate was continued in the House of Commons. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (Leader of the Labor Party) said the Government’s description of the evil of unemployment was very bad, and the proposals for dealing with it were even worse. If, as a result of the war, our peculiar position, as a specialised productive world Power had gone, emigration must be faced; but a great many who had emigrated were back in this country with all their savings gone and in a much worse state than when they went away. The Government’s ameliorative schemes would only absorb about 120,000 out of 1,500,000 unemployed. He hoped the House would support the Labor amendment, as a vote of censure.
Mr. Snowden urged the recognition of the Soviet in order to compel the latter to throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism and bring about renewed trade.
Labor did not favour unemployment insurance. If work was unobtainable the nation should maintain the workers on a scale sufficient to prevent physical deterioration. In regard to land reform, the State should devote itself to intensive production, while the principle of co-operation should be extensively applied. The question of reparations should be handed to the League of Nations.
General IT. Page Croft urged the Premier bodly to ask the Empire Prime Ministers to give the Motherland vast tracts of country in each Dominion for development by settlers. Mr. Asquith described the Governments remedial measures as a melancholy' instalment towards the solution of unemployment. Until international trade, “was stabilised we should continue to be, of all nations, among the chief sufferers. Over the whole economic situation in Europe there loomed two spectres—reparations and indebtedness. Until these were laid economic stability was honeless.
Mr. Bonar Law agreed with Mr. Asquith in the main. Much had been said about Germany’s inability to pay reparations, but it seemed to him a curious result of the war that this country, which sacrificed so much to obtarn victory, should be the only one almost to pay any indemnity. The amendment was defeated by 303 votes to 172. END OF THE COALITION. ALL OBLIGATIONS DISCHARGED. London, Dec. 1. Coalition peers and members of the House of Commons gave a dinner to Mr. Chamberlain at the House of Conu mons.
Lord Birkenhead, who presided, read a striking tribute to Mr. Chamberlain from Lord Balfour.
Responding to the toast of his health Mr. Chamberlain said: “I think the election restores all sections of the old Coalition to their perfect freedom of action. Mr. Lloyd George has satisfied the obligations of comradeship and honor to’ us, and so have we to him. Having fully discharged those obligations we have now freedom of choice regarding our future attitude in public affairs.” THE MINISTRY OF SHIPPING. Received Dec. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 1. Supplementary Estimates totalling £7,844,000 for the Civil Service were presented to Parliament, including £5,866,000 in. connection with the liquidation of the Ministry of Shipping, £933.000 expenses for the Royal Irish Constabulary, and. £282,000 for grants to ex-service men in Ireland.
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